RATING 5/5!"“Dies Irae” is perfect in every way one chooses to look at it, displaying an incredibly elevated level of technical achievement, in vocal performances as well as orchestrations and execution [...]. Whatever musical influences are discerned in the beginning are quickly put away, as this recording stands out in its own right as one of the best in the genre. Genuinely emotional music that burns bright to the heart’s very core, casting off all layers of superficiality with a remarkable ease, as precise in its certainty as is the calling of true, sincere faith. The experience is similar to a personal revelation, and in that sense it remains true to the origins and purpose of religion. Regardless of the beliefs you hold it is impossible not to be moved by it."

Started in 2003 as a column ("The Heathen Harvest Music Review") of the "Radical Faeries Digest" print magazine, Heathen Harvest is a reference point of the post-industrial, neoclassical, neofolk movement.

Carpe Nocturne Magazine REVIEW. Atrium Animae - Dies Irae22-02-2012

RITUAL Magazine INTERVIEW. Atrium Animae. Anime Inquiete09-01-2012

Another fantastic interview "Anime Inquiete" [in Italian] this time for Ritual Magazine.

:RITUAL: is the first and only official Italian magazine dedicated to the dark, goth, electro, industrial, ambient, black metal and avantgarde music, scene and culture. Out every 2 months in 25.000 copies.

"The Italian band Atrium Animae was formed in 2007, their name is “considered as a symbolic representation of the passage from physical world toward an immaterial world.” The heavenly soprano of Alessia Cicala, a member of the band Chirleison, partnered with the compositions of Massimiliano Picconi, together create music on their debut “Dies Irae” that is stately in its atmosphere, a sacred enveloping that is almost funerial in outlook. Or as the band’s promotional material puts it: “A symbolic voyage in a silent wasteland made of treachery, defeat and spiritual hunger. A world where the locked embrace of loss and despair are represented through a reinterpretation of passages taken from religious and pagan texts.” Sublime, and an excellent addition to the genre of neoclassical darkwave."

Atrium Animae | Rex Gloriae [Official]01-12-2011

Our first official video “Rex Gloriae”, from the album “Dies Irae” (Projekt Records) is now online.

LOUD! Magazine REVIEW+INTERVIEW. Atrium Animae - Dies Irae24-10-2011

LOUD! Magazine is the Portuguese market leader in the metal press, in continuous existence for 10+ years, more than 125 issues published. It is the monthly reference for every Portuguese metalhead, with a national covering in distribution 10.000 circulation.

:Ritual: Magazine REVIEW. Atrium Animae - Dies Irae20-10-2011

:RITUAL: is the first and only official Italian magazine dedicated to the dark, goth, electro, industrial, ambient, black metal and avantgarde music, scene and culture. Out every 2 months in 25.000 copies.

Elegy Magazine REVIEW. Atrium Animae - Dies Irae29-09-2011

"Un tombeau des espoirs qui a la beauté d'une cathédrale."

Elegy is the first French magazine dedicated to the dark and alternative music and culture. Created in 1998, this bimestrial magazine offers interviews of bands but also of painters, photographers, writers, directors...

Darkroom Magazine INTERVIEW. Atrium Animae. "Visioni Sacre"14-09-2011

The full-length version of our interview on Darkroom Magazine, previously published for Inferno Rock Magazine. For those who don't speak Italian, this is a (poor) translation made by Google TranslatorRead the interview in the INTERVIEWS section or on Darkroom Magazine.

Side-Line REVIEW. Atrium Animae - Dies Irae26-08-2011

"I can’t remember to have ever heard a ‘darker’ release on Projekt [...] 'Dies Irae' is from a pure musical point of view still surprising. Music and vocals together are in perfect balance with each other [...] A terrific debut CD maybe revealing the latest sensation from Italy".

"Side-Line" [Belgium], a daily updated news site on gothic, electro and industrial music, reaching 65.000 music fans per day.

ROCKERILLA MAGAZINE (legendary Italian rock magazine, printed) is a rock magazine with a difference: it began in 1978 as a punk zine and developed into a Bible for all the alternative music lovers in Italy, its 80s covers being absolutely legendary, from early Cure and Joy Division to The Sisters of Mercy, Danzig and The Cramps. Today Rockerilla uniquely covers a huge spectrum of alternative music, books and contemporary art, and features about 60 pages of reviews.

Gothic Paradise REVIEW. Atrium Animae - Dies Irae22-06-2011

"It's a true masterpiece in portraying many of the moods and feelings of the text and in it's own way there are definitely beautiful facets to the album across each track. For fans of various dark ambient, dark folk, neoclassical and medieval music, this is a true treasure for your collection." Rating: 4.5/5 ! Gothic Paradise

"Dies Irae is a meticulous exercise in a world completely unlike our present one."

The Morton Report is the online magazine created by A.D. Morton, a journalist, a notable writer and biographer, known for the biography of Princess Diana.

"Atrium Animae is primarily the work of two incredibly skilled individuals, who fully understand the music that they create. Notably, it is one thing to be appreciative of a style. That appreciation shows up in bands that attempt to create in that vein of style. The talent is there, the ability is there."

Onda Rock REVIEW. Atrium Animae - Dies Irae14-06-2011

Glasswerk.co.uk.REVIEW. Atrium Animae - Dies Irae11-06-2011

"The choral work from the two main vocal artists is very impressive and the classical music is some of the best in terms of mood. Massimiliano Picconi and leading lady Alessia Cicala have crafted quite the art form out of their work. It is more in depth listening experience, that simply treasure for pleasure."

Fantastic FEARnet REVIEW. Atrium Animae - Dies Irae04-06-2011

"One of the coolest techniques used on Dies Irae is the intricate layering of vocals, blending multiple tracks of Cicala's operatic voice and weaving it together with different ranges of male vocals. Combined with slow, epic waves of brass and strings, the resulting effect feels like a black cloud passing over a cathedral"

FEARnet is a cable channel, website and Video on Demand television service owned by Horror Entertainment LLC, a joint venture between Comcast, Lions Gate Entertainment, and Sony Pictures Entertainment.

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New Website Online11-03-2011

Our new amazing website is now online, always made by Massimiliano. Feel free to send us a feedback!

Alessia and Massimiliano

Radio RAI Show.Opening Song.Lacrimosa Dies20-03-2010

Lacrimosa Dies has been chosen as opening song of the Radio Show "Cinema...Vangeli...Su Re" on Radio RAI Sardegna.

"Cinema...Vangeli...Su Re" is a radio show in eleven parts that presents material taken from the backstage of the movie "Su Re" by Giovanni Columbu, plus lectures and music taken from the movies "Vangelo secondo Matteo" by Pierpaolo Pasolini and "Gesù di Nazareth" by Franco Zeffirelli.